‘Obviously they have changed their manager, they have brought four or five players in, they are playing a bit differently and to go and put themselves 2-0 up at Fulham is no mean feat. And then they went and got a point with ten men. They’re decent.

‘They’re not bad and when I look at their squad they’ve got decent players. He (Lee Clark) has brought one or two better players in and they’ve got pace in the side so it’s going to be a tough game for us’.

Lee Clark was appointed the Blackpool manager last month and has endured mixed results in his two games in charge of the club so far.

The Tangerines went down 2-0 to Ipswich Town at home last weekend, but on Wednesday they held Fulham to a 2-2 draw away from home.

In fact, Blackpool were actually 2-0 up before the half-hour mark at Craven Cottage, and that should worry Leeds.

Subhankar Mondal

A football journalist based in Wakefield, Subhankar Mondal has previously worked for Goal.com International and Skysports.com, and has had his sports articles published in The Guardian and The Observer. He has also been on the BBC in the past and his name once found its way to the pages of the World Soccer magazine. He was recently cited in a major Louis van Gaal biography.